Law:
Restructuring Community Pays Tribute to Harvey Miller
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For Women Lawyers, Career Choices Have Price
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Fox Rothschild Elevates New Bankruptcy Partner
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Trial attorney and wife give $10m to law school from which 3 generations of his family graduated
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$72M payday for 2 small law firms OK’d by judge
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A Long Road Back to Cravath
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Harvard Law Jerk Confirms Everything You Thought About Harvard Law
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New University Of Texas President Rejects 'Vulgar' Salary Slurped Up By His Counterparts At Other Colleges
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Welcome To The Suck, Law Profs
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Bar Exam Software Firm to Pay $2.1M Settlement
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Those Social Media Pros For Law Firms - Like Doc Reviewers, Technology Could Eliminate Their Jobs
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Seyfarth Shaw chair starts to tweet as other BigLaw heads shun Twitter
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GW Law Speaker: Embrace the Struggle, Law Grads
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Survey says: Aspiring GCs must develop skills, experience
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Who’s the client? A trip to Ethics Boot Camp
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Technology drives transformation in the legal department
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Appeal Denied in Defunct Company Privilege Lawsuit
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Australia follows US in client auction service for lawyers
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Lawyers Acting Badly On A Train
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What Makes Lawyers Happy?
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Fury at HogLove as salary hike puts pay for new layers above existing lawyers
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Young Eversheds partner collapses and dies at work
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Why Are D.C. Lawyers Such Frigging Babies?
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A Litigation Attorney And His Apple Watch
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Newt Gingrich To Colonize Biglaw Firm Instead Of Moon
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Yelp Gets In On The Law School Rankings Game
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6 Warning Signs For When Not To Take On A Client
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Notre Dame Threatens Suicide
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Police Officers Arrested In Miami In Sweeping Fraud Case
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We finally know how George Clooney proposed to lawyer Amal Alamuddin
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Ex-lawyer publishes toe-curling story of mid-life crisis
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A&O associate berates colleagues over spillage
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Partner stars as gym's before-and-after poster boy
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Pizza order reportedly leads to suspect in DC slayings
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Grandchildren Fail To Clean Rooms . . . So Grandmother Kills Their Cat and Four Kittens With Hammer
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Tiny bonsai tree worth $2K is stolen from museum, abandoned and recovered but was ‘severely pruned’
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Man on trial in bail-jumping case exits courtroom as lawyers talk with judge in chambers
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White police officer shoots two unarmed black men suspected of stealing beer
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Grand Jury indicts all six Baltimore cops involved in the death of an unarmed black man
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NYPD busts food cart vendor charging $30 a hot dog
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Kidnap Survivor Found Murdered With Her Son
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Ex-Football Player Pleads Guilty to Posting Revenge P----
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Couple Killed by Fumes After Having S-- in Running Car
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Judge reaffirms, then stays, Ala. same-sex marriage order
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In Daredevil’s Final Episodes, Matt Finally Uses The Legal System
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Say What?!
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Judges:
Authorities investigate pill found at bottom of judge’s water glass
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The Unquenchable Thirst For Supreme Court Tea Leaves
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Obama’s Game of Chicken with the Supreme Court
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Posner’s Pottage
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Wall Street:
Stock futures sidelined ahead of Yellen
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Stocks rise as investors look past mixed data; oil jumps
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There's only one thing keeping 5 of the world's biggest Wall Street banks in business
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The stock market is calm. Too calm
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Layoffs:
National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Consultants:
Alvarez & Marsal Bolsters Commercial Restructuring Practice
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Retailing:
Creditors submit only bid to buy bankrupt Karmaloop • No bidders for bankrupt Karmaloop • CEO to be replaced
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Delia’s, Coldwater Creek Live on After Stores Close
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Retailer Cache gets final OK for loan after deal with creditors
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Standard General Cleared to Buy RadioShack Data
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Tech:
Pebble Apparently Can't Keep Up With Its Own Growth
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Debt Collection:
California One-Action Rule Preempted by Federal Debt Collection Improvement Act
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Economy:
US jobless claims rise; four-week average lowest since 2000 • Layoffs remain low as jobless claims rise
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US labor market resilient despite sluggish economy
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Schiff: Fed's 'heroin' is about to wear off
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More Parents Bankrolling Adult Children
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Crises Are A Relationship Test for the Fed and Congress
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The world's biggest economies had a bad May (except Japan)
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Glaring signs 1999 is back?
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Philly Fed Index Unexpectedly Indicates Slower Growth In May
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12 things no one tells you about working for yourself
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McDonald's workers: 'supersize my check' • McDonald's Oak Brook headquarters swarmed with wage protesters
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How Uber-type jobs are driving inequality, and what to do about it
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If you thought income inequality was bad, get a load of wealth inequality
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The Shockingly Short Life Spans of Public Firms
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Our $58 Trillion Love Affair with Debt
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:
Existing home sales hit 5.04 million units in April, vs. expectations of 5.24 million • Sales crater, falling 3.3% • Listing Shortage
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US Housing Recovery: Too Few Homes for Sale
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Distressed Sales and Cash buyers for Selected Cities in April
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Average US rate on 30-year mortgage slips
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Fannie Mae predicts strong spring homebuying season
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It's getting more expensive to be a renter • Zillow: Rents gallop past home values in April
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Two North Texas malls languish as tenants flock to new centers
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Fraud enforcement official arrested for mortgage fraud
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Municipalities:
Chicago is not on the road to becoming the next Detroit
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Gov. Rauner softens some 'Turnaround Agenda' demands
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San Bernardino Firefighters Wedgied by Their Own Petards
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Calif. city could outsource fire, EMS services
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Kansas Now Relishes Punishing Their Poor
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Moody's downgrades Puerto Rico GDB notes to Ca from Caa1, GOs to Caa2 from Caa1; outlook negative
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Christie Pension Albatross Has Investors Dumping New Jersey Debt
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Americans Are Moving to These Cities • These are the fastest growing cities in America — and they are not N.Y. or San Francisco
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Oil/Gas:
Brent crude oil steadies near $66 before long weekend • Oil above $60, but where's the OPEC worry? • Why Oil’s Rally Is Over
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Drilling Efficiency To Keep Oil Prices Low
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Why oil stocks aren’t out of the woods
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OPEC may condemn the world to oil glut for years
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Saudi Oil Supply Outpaces Rivals in Grab for Record China Demand
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Clock Running Out For Struggling Oil Companies
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How Saudi Arabia may cost Alaska state employees their jobs
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Canada oil patch to see massive consolidation, analyst predicts
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U.S. natural gas imports reach lowest level in 28 years
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Lenders give Sabine Oil & Gas more time
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Moody's Sees Doubling in Energy Firm Defaults
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Canada adapting to cheaper oil to avoid going way of the auto industry
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Latest bad news for oil-rich Alberta: more getting unemployment aid
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Student Debt:
There's a fight between angry student debtors and the Education Department over a law nobody knows how to interpret
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In-Debt JDs, et al. - Good News, Your Loans Are 2016 Campaign Meme
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Flooring:
Lumber Liquidators CEO resigns 'unexpectedly'
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Corporate Reform:
How criminal charges became another day at the office for banks
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Senate banking committee passes massive regulatory relief bill
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Mary Jo White's SEC Is the Agency That Barely Moves
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Lawsky To Start Legal Consulting Firm
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One of Wall Street's biggest enemies is everybody's favorite law school graduation speaker
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Were Bank Settlements Really Payments of Extortion to the Department of Justice??
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Fraud:
Life Partners bankruptcy trustee announces fraud findings
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ZeekRewards receiver files for 10 more default judgments
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Travel:
Luxury Link Ceases Operations, Leaves Prepaid Bookers in the Lurch
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Privacy:
In Bankruptcy , CIOs Must Balance Privacy Promises with Maximizing Data
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Hockey:
LECOM emerges as investor in local bid for Erie Otters
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Education:
FL: Acclaim Academy charter schools file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
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11 Year Old Graduates from Calif. College
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Food/Beverage:
Pizzeria Regina Files for Ch. 11 Bankruptcy
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McDonald’s Must Win Over Franchisees to Escape Slump
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Politics:
Rubio: 'Living above his means'?
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Jeb: George Spent Way Too Much Money
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory
Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (13 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (6 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:
(1)-(2)- (3)-(4)-(5)-(6)-(7)-(8)-(9)-(10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)
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Bankruptcy Statistics:
Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Avoidance Actions:
Deprizio, Shmeprizio: A Waiver of Indemnification Can Shield an Insider Guarantor from Liability (at Least in the Ninth Circuit)
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Jurisdiction:
Will “Wellness” Make Us Better?
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Corporate Governance:
New Decision Clarifies Rules Regarding Derivative Standing for Creditors in Delaware Court of Chancery
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Delaware Offers New Guidance on Enforcing Fiduciary Duties
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TBTF:
U.S. Senator Vitter withdraws amendment on bank capital minimums
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?A Progress Report on the Resolution of Systemically Important Financial Institutions, Martin J. Gruenberg, Chairman, FDIC
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Litigation:
Spoliation and the long-awaited federal e-discovery rule changes
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Insurance:
Life Partners Trustee Alleges Wide-Ranging Death-Bond Fraud
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Lumbermen’s ordered into financial rehabilitation
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Bankruptcy Crimes:
NW Indiana accountant accused of fraud faced 34 counts
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Lehman:
Lehman Suing Over Soured Mortgage Loans
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Celebs:
Tim Blixseth Petitions Supreme Court for Release From Jail - Founder of Yellowstone Club resort jailed for contempt over the millions he owes his creditors
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Dallas billionaire Sam Wyly's first mass art collection auction produces record results
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Personal Finance:
What I wish I had known about money in my 20s
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Healthcare:
Another member of El Paso Children's Hospital board resigns • Bankruptcy judge leaning towards mediation in El Paso Children's Hospital case • Distrust soured relations between UMC and EL Paso Children's
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Many Insured Americans Can't Afford Health Care • Americans with Obamacare Are Still Afraid of Big Medical Bills
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Republicans may again thwart Obamacare-hating conservative’s efforts to save eyesight
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Coal:
Murray Energy Founder/CEO Robert Murray sees bankruptcies, layoffs coming to the industry
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Murray Energy to Lay Off Around 1,400
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More Bad News For Peabody Energy - Are We Seeing The End Of The Coal Industry?
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Patriot Said to Pick Blackhawk Mining as Stalking-Horse Bidder
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Patriot Coal Committee Appointed
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Autos:
Can Takata survive the massive airbag recall?
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Rail:
CEO of Wilmington's Vertex Rail just filed for bankruptcy for former company
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Mass Torts:
Man who caught listeria-related meningitis sues Blue Bell
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Sovereigns:
On Ukraine's external debt, EU suggests dialog
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UK:
Insolvency profession saves 230,000 jobs
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Bloxham partner who helped bring down the firm won’t pay a cent in fines
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Pension Protection Fund – new guidance on Insolvency Practitioner fees
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PIIGS:
Varoufakis courts controversy anew with taping remark • Greek optimism about imminent deal not justified: Schaeuble • Merkel, Hollande and Tsipras to meet in Riga to give push to debt talks • Yanis Varoufakis should forget Grexit, the EU will starve Greece of cash • 'We can't just throw Greece of the euro' - Juncker warns ahead of crunch summit • Greek official says 'closer to a deal' after Riga talks • Merkel, Hollande urge Tsipras to complete current bailout
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Germany:
Better Protection For Bank Customers Under New German Law
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Hungary:
KDNP submits personal bankruptcy bill
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Brazil:
Brazil's economy hit by recession; unemployment surges
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MENA:
Iran Rejects Access to Military Sites, Scientists
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